Performance Management

Public Private Partenership and Leisure Management Contractor Procurement

Client: Borough Council of Wellingborough

We have recently completed a project which was managed on behalf of Deloitte; a leisure PPP project for the Borough Council of Wellingborough that included the replacement of an existing sport centre with a new £6M facility.

Acting as interim Head of Leisure our role included the leisure management function of the council's existing centres and the closure of one of them.

We undertook the procurement of a management contractor for the council. We used the negotiated procedure route.

We represented the Council on the design and capital build leisure/contractor team for the new leisure centre providing design and operational advice from the operators and customers view point taking into account the Council's financial, social and service implications /policies.

The project was completed on time and on budget and achieved the Council's objectives of:

  • transferring the service to the private/trust sector
  • obtaining the incoming contractors input and advice on the design of the new centre
  • keeping the old centre operational until the new swimming centre was ready
  • obtaining capital funding from the tenderers to fit out the new centre and investment in the dry side centre within the contract,  and
  • reducing the operating costs to the Council of the service.